Visual Design & Branding Intern

As Visual Design & Branding Intern, you will focus on bringing the BYBORRE® brand to life visually. Guided by our Brand & Experience designer, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills in visual design and brand identity building, while gaining invaluable experience in conceptualizing and executing visual assets that resonate with the BYBORRE® audience.

The Visual Design & Branding internship is a part-time 3-month summer internship position for talents to gain working experience in the Branding field. You will be part of our Commercial team, reporting to the Brand & Experience Designer. Growing your knowledge about visual design, and brand identity building, you will get the opportunity to experience working in our fast-moving textile innovation studio and become part of something bigger.  

About the team

• Be part of a close-knit, dynamic and international team in Amsterdam


• Mix of experts in different fields (knit engineers, yarn specialists, in-house digital team and more)

What you'll be doing

On a day-to-day basis, you will:

• Assist in the production of brand assets for all brand touch points – including social media visuals and promotional material (marketing) learning resources (customer success), outreach collateral (sales) and more.


• Collaborate with Brand & Marketing to conceptualize and design visually compelling content for various online channels. 


• Assist in the development and maintenance of our brand’s visual identity, ensuring consistency across all touch points.


• Participate in design and brainstorming sessions to refine concepts and elevate the quality of our visual content.


• Assist in the production of other visual branding elements, including photo and video shoots, ensuring alignment with our brand guidelines and objectives.

Learning objectives

• Gain practical experience in graphic design principles, including layout, typography, and color theory.


• Deepen your understanding of branding strategies and how visual elements contribute to brand perception and recognition.


• Refine your technical skills in design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) and Figma.


• Develop versatility in working with different mediums to create cohesive visual narratives while adapting our brand style and voice across various formats. 


• Develop your ability to work collaboratively in a professional environment, receiving feedback and iterating on designs to achieve optimal results. 

Skills & experience

What we're looking for in the ideal candidate. Not all of these are must haves, so please take the leap to get in touch even if you don't feel you meet all criteria.

• HBO or WO-level education in Graphic Design, Digital Design or Branding 


• Passionate about contemporary and visual communication and the Branding landscape 


• Proficient in Adobe programs (Illustrator,inDesign, Photoshop).


• Proficient in English language (spoken and written). 


• Strong work ethic, endless curiosity, self-starting attitude and resourcefulness. 


• Preferably available from 1st of October for a period of 6 months.

This internship is intended for people who are currently studying or who have recently graduated. We can only accept applications from applicants with a passport from the EU/EEA & Switzerland, or people who have a Dutch study-, arbeid vrij toegestaan-, or job-seeking year residence permit.

Benefits

• An internship allowance of 250 EU per month


• Be part of a multi-disciplinary, international team in Amsterdam 


• Gain experience working in a scale-up environment and build a strong network  


• Gain knowledge about a unique world merging tech and textiles


• Be part of something bigger, opportunity to make a positive impact with your work


• Daily travel expenses covered (under conditions)


• Daily, healthy office lunch, drinks & snacks 


• A steep learning curve and dynamic, creative and collaborative work environment 

About BYBORRE

We are a textile innovation company based in Amsterdam where we’re focused on drastically changing the textile industry as we know it today. With an in-house knit lab with a range of circular knitting machines and an extensive yarn library we are experimenting and innovating to create the highest quality knits.

It is our mission to create conscious creators and invite a wide variety of brands from world leading companies, from sportswear, to fashion, all the way to interior and automotive. Some of these brands include adidas, BMW, Rapha, Gore-Tex, and more. We ask these respected institutions to be “part of something bigger” and explore the power of bespoke and conscious textile creation together with us.

BYBORRE enables these brands to create in a conscious manner through our online platform Create™, digitising the full supply chain from designing your unique textile through to producing the fabric. We believe in transparency, supplying creators with tools to design and construct their own knits, based on their specific requirements, and make textile creation a fundamental part of their design process.